Dr. Nneka Unachukwu explains how to stop chasing distractions by anchoring to your personal why and long-term vision. She suggests visualizing your 90th birthday to clarify what actually matters, then use that to decide what deserves your attention today.
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What is the overarching thing? Like, what is the one thing that makes it really easy to identify shiny objects as what they are? Which is just that shiny objects, they're distractions. And for me, what I find that is. Is leaning into your why. Right? Your why is something that you want to be very aware of. You want it to be something that you think about all the time. You want it to be something at the forefront of your mind. And for me, I am so tuned into it. I'm so dialed in. I have it on my mind all the time. I attend my 90th birthday party a lot, and I'm like, okay, this is where want to be at that time. These are the results I wanted to have created. These are the accomplishments I want to have had. These are the things I want my business to have done. And so if that's the case today, I'm burning daylight like I'm 45. I have 45 more years until that is a reality. And if that's going to be reality or not, it's tied to what I do now. And so when I think about that, when I travel to my 90th birthday and I really think about where I would want to be at that time, it's very easy for me to see, well, this is something that takes me there.